Dirty Tennis

1989

Comedy / Sport

5
IMDb Rating 2.6/10 10 473 473

Plot summary

A great comedy about how to win at tennis by playing dirty.

Director

George Bloom Photo
George Bloom

Top cast

Caitlyn Jenner Photo
Caitlyn Jenner as Self
Dick Van Patten Photo
Dick Van Patten as Self
Nicollette Sheridan Photo
Nicollette Sheridan as Self
480p.WEB
281.14 MB
720*480
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 31 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 3 / 10

Huh

It's as if a dictionary and a thesaurus had a baby that barfed in your mouth and then wrote that review. (Please see above review). I didn't watch the movie but I used to watch Eight Is Enough when I was a little kid and really liked that so if this show is like that then I guess I recommend it for fans of Dick Van Patten who seems like a riotous dude.
Reviewed by rsoonsa 6 / 10

HOW TO KEEP FROM LOSING TO A BETTER PLAYER.

Whenever a participatory game or sport develops into a widespread favourite with a populace, as golf, tennis, bowling, et alia, have become, addition of an obligatory type and fashion of accoutrements inevitably follows, resulting in the bedecking of anxious amateurs who fancy being au courant in the style, rather than the essence, of their chosen recreational activity. This whimsical short (about 30 minutes) film features comic character performer Dick Van Patten as host at his San Fernando Valley home for a tennis match with Olympic decathlon kingpin Bruce Jenner wherein Van Patten demonstrates methods of unsettling a superior foe in order to defeat him. Jenner comes to the court with full panoply of equipment and accessories, wearing designer tennis clothing whereas Van Patten is arrayed with black socks, bathing trunks, and a gaudy shirt, his apparel one of the "dirty tennis" ploys he posits to unsettle an opponent. Among many examples of guile and cunning which Van Patten recommends are the use of a bikini-clad wench (Nicolette Sheridan here) basking at courtside, exhausting one's adversary during the warmup process, and deploying a telephone, radio, leaf blower as well as other noisemaking items to discompose the concentration of the competition. Van Patten's wife Pat along with his actor sons Vincent, Nels and James (who has script credit) enter into the light-hearted proceedings, while Jenner is amusingly effective as an athlete whose rhythm is incessantly disturbed (dramatized through voiceovers) by his scorned competitor's trickery. Much effort is expended for this production, with capable camerawork, and specially fine editing that involves a significant amount of splicing, for a work that is but a bagatelle, and includes plugs for the players, but there is additionally some incisive satire directed at those who place appearances over all else.
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